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Poilievre continues to court workers with pledge to train 350,000 tradespeople in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Of course he would. Funding Trade Schools at the expense of universities gives him a population of skilled manual labourers who have never learned critical thinking, history, or social policy.

A Trade School teaching one thing and one thing well, priding itself on "cutting out" all the rest of what they think of as unnecessary nonsense. And you will never change my mind that THAT is a major contributing factor to the dumbing down of the current electorate. The Greeks considered the Liberal Arts necessary for the public to be able to effectively contribute to the political discourse.

But that doesn't suit conservative purposes.

‘The lad vote’: Surprise polling trend shows young Aussie men moving to the right in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago

It's not "surprise polling" when it's been literally happening everywhere for the last two or three years...

Trump ramps up attacks on judges, calls out Justice John Roberts in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Trump is exactly stupid enough to bite the hand that feeds him.

Danielle Smith threatens a national unity crisis if her demands aren't met, provides a list in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Just another one to immediately string up when the war starts.

Proud Fediverse account signups from Toronto 🇨🇦 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

That's what my ex-wife said too....

Proud Fediverse account signups from Toronto 🇨🇦 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You mean that hussy is cheating on me????

Conservatives won't allow reporters to travel with Poilievre during upcoming election in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

That just gave me an interesting thought. I wonder what the Venn diagram looks of Trump/Poppinfresh supporters and people who don't use adblockers...

Trump voter says he doesn't regret choice despite wife's ICE arrest in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

"Bartell went on to say, "Hey...It's cheaper than a divorce. m'iright or m'iright", gave this reporter a fist-bump. Smacked the behind of a passing blonde and backed away while giving finger-guns.

We've reached out for comment. But so far, his motivation remains unclear."

Zelenskyy: Russia attacked Ukraine’s energy sector after Putin’s order to stop targeting it in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Did Putin order it while winking?

MAGA pol who introduced bill on ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ arrested in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Holy shit that is the most hilarious thing I've read today.

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Video thumbnails distorted (lemmy.ca)
 

Any idea why post video thumbnails are showing in three distorted diagonal bars?

Once you open the video full screen it plays normally.

Apple's First Foldable iPhone Estimated to Cost Nearly Twice as Much as iPhone 16 Pro Max in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Apple will keep charging whatever their marketing department can convince idiots to pay.

Their profit margin has zero basis in the reality of how much it costs to design, build, and market a particular product and is instead a function of how high they can push it until their customer says no.

That's why they have the spare cash to produce goddamn television shows... That they THEN make you pay to watch!

IPhone users have already paid for appleTV a thousand times over. But hey, gotta look cool in front of your coworkers I guess.

Only Canadians will understand this meme in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Prime Minister Kinew (canoe) would be the most Canadian sounding thing ever.

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A redesigned Pontiac Aztek would do well in the current climate of off-grid YouTube Explorers. (lemmy.ca)
 
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We tend to describe the pupil as though it's its own actual separate part of the eye. It's almost strange to think about the fact that in reality it's just a hole in the Iris and not a "thing" at all. (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
29 comments fedilink
 

For example, why do we say "Your pupils are dilated". They aren't. It's the iris aperture that is dilated.

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Am I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent? (lemmy.ca)
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My biggest gripe with the Cybertruck is that it's not technically a truck at all... (lemmy.ca)
 

There are many reasons to hate the Cybertruck. Looks, shoddy workmanship, flat out performance lies, Man-child business owner, etc...

But my biggest gripe, and this is the unpopular bit, is that in my opinion, it's not actually a truck at all.

The Cybertruck is a uni-body construction, often called a "car chassis". It shares that with the Honda Ridgeline, Hyundai Santa Cruz, and a few others. Trucks that are meant to do actual work use a body-on-frame construction because it has more ability to flex and twist when you put a heavy load in the bed or towing something heavy.

To put it simply, if you put a heavy enough load in the back of a uni-body truck, you're going to lose some traction on the front wheels as the weight will tilt the entire body backwards, whereas real trucks made for work are developed with the bed mounted separately to avoid that issue.

I know that yes, Santa Cruz, Cybertruck, Ridgeline, etc... are still technically classified as a truck. But in my (unpopular) opinion, anything uni-body shouldn't be classified as one.

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The phrase "Pics or it didn't happen" is largely meaningless now that AI is a thing. (lemmy.ca)
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Someday soon (if it hasn't already happened) a book will be published that was written and edited entirely on a phone/tablet with a touch keyboard. (lemmy.ca)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
13 comments fedilink
 

I can't even imagine writing long form on a touch keyboard. But with a lot of people eschewing laptops/desktops for their mobile devices, it's really just a matter of time.

edited: Missed a "T" in the title.

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Flight Attendant Tantrum Cancels Transatlantic Flight (jalopnik.com)
 

Just immediately reminded me of this gem from a while ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3BtmeUhOHU

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Say what you will about the Will Smith iRobot movie.... (gizmodo.com)
 

...but its robot designs were well ahead of the curve for the time.

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Open Creative (lemmy.ca)
 

Just popping in to post about a community to discuss FOSS creative software like GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Kdenlive, Blender, etc...

https://lemmy.ca/c/open_creative

I've used them all at one time or another. Since moving to FOSS as much as possible ten years ago, I've learned a LOT about most of the programs, and consider myself a near expert in some (Kdenlive, GIMP) and fairly competent in others (Blender, Scribus).

I feel like having a place where anyone who uses FOSS creative software can both ask questions, share advice, and celebrate each others works, would be a nice addition to the Fediverse.

So feel free to join and post your work, your questions, your news or your tips and tricks.

I'm a one man band as far as modding and maintaining for now, so thanks in advance for your patience while I learn how it all works on the back end.

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GIMP Segmentation Fault - FYI (lemmy.ca)
 

Anyone having a recent segmentation fault with GIMP 2.10.36 when closing a file without saving changes, the issue has been fixed and will be merged into the next point release. 2.10.38.

More info here: (scroll to bottom) https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/10785

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Video Editing Practice Footage (lemmy.ca)
 

Putting this out into the community for anyone who needs it.

When I was first learning video editing, I had trouble finding good narrative content to practice with. There was plenty of stock footage, etc... but nothing scripted where you could craft a scene between two characters.

Cinestudy is the best for that. In fact I'm using footage from there for a book that I've been working on about narrative editing in Kdenlive.

https://cinestudy.org/

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